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I cannot consolidate their results with my own experience and those of many reports I've read: their results seems way too good! Real world annecdata: a google
by FullyFunctional 10y ago
I cannot consolidate their results with my own experience and those of many reports I've read: their results seems way too good! Real world annecdata: a google hangout seems drained the battery in about two hours on my top-spec, one-month old, MBP. I never had experiences like this on the 2013 MBP.
- jsjohnst 10y agoGoogle Hangouts consistently drains at minimum of 20% of my battery life per 30min meeting. It doesn't matter if I'm using my top spec previous generation 15", my top spec previous gen 13", or my 2016 12" MacBook. As such, using it to gauge battery life is about as fair as running a Hadoop cluster in VMs to gauge battery life. Actually, I think the active Hadoop cluster would use less battery. The reason why their test results are ridiculously long is how little they stress the machine. Loading ten basic web pages (in the stock browser, so no Flash, and something tells me no WebGL usage either), so outside an errant background process, what's really using any watts there besides the screen?